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Rooms:
10.0
Service:
10.0
Cleanliness:
9.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
7.0
We chose a hotel for a long time, considered different options in Side and Belek. Previously, they always rested in Kemer, where there is a stone beach and a stone bottom. This time we decided to go to the sandy beaches so that the child (2 years old) would be comfortable. With a child, we went to the sea for the first time. I wanted to have a lot of interactive for him (well, so that we, selfish parents))), you could sit quietly while he frolics on the slides / playground / in the playroom). As a result, the child did not appreciate either the smooth sandy entrance to the sea, or children's entertainment, or playing in the sand on the beach, or children's pools.
We arrived from the airport at 10 a. m. in the morning. It's really close to the airport, which is what I wanted. The room wasn't ready yet. We were offered a brunch to eat while waiting for our room. We returned at 10:50 at the reception, we were asked to wait 10 minutes and at 11:00 we were already settled in the room.
The room was on the 1st floor of the main building overlooking the sea, at the end of the corridor (#4034) . Despite the presence of an amphitheater near the windows, it was really quiet. Noise isolation in the room is good, but you can hear the crying of children in neighboring rooms. But we ourselves were with the baby - it did not annoy us. Recently refurbished hotel, spacious, modern design, fluffy light gray carpet on the floor, large bathroom, a lot of shower cosmetics (renewed daily), white bed linen and towels, everything is changed regularly, plenty of storage space, free mini- bar, which is updated daily, TV. Once they even asked for a second time to replace all the towels because it was raining and after using the towels they did not dry at all. And twice there was embarrassment - the child wet the bed in a dream. They asked for a replacement and they did it without any problems.
Nutrition was fully assessed only in the first 2 days, since by the end of the third day we all fell ill with rotavirus infection in turn: first the husband, then me, and at the end the child. This ended our complete vacation.
Outside the hotel, we didn’t eat or drink anything, the hotel itself is really clean, everywhere in the common areas there are hand sanitizers that we always used. We assume that the husband accidentally took a sip of water in the pool with children's slides (lay down on his back, wanted to wet his head and accidentally plunged into the water completely), but we, in turn, with the child already picked up from him, when he still had no obvious symptoms of the disease . He was stormy specifically: the temperature was above 39, nausea, lack of appetite and diarrhea (without vomiting), everything is the same with the child, only the temperature is up to 38.
We went to the doctor for insurance, prescribed treatment. The illness cost us 100€ with all expenses, taking into account the fact that we paid the insurance deductible only for the child. That is, if you are traveling with a child to a hotel where there are usually a lot of children, I strongly advise you to take money with a margin for such cases. And this despite the fact that we had a large first aid kit with 3 types of antibiotics, antipyretics, all kinds of sorbents, painkillers, etc.
As for food (it was very important for us): the menu is sooooo diverse, many desserts, there is a whole children's restaurant, many locations with snacks: gozleme, pizza, ice cream, a pastry shop with coffee brewed in a professional coffee machine by a pleasant barista girl. In general, you definitely won’t stay hungry, the main thing is not to get sick like we do and then not eat only rice and then walk with hellish stomach pains from one dessert eaten!
The animation was not particularly appreciated: we didn’t have time for an adult (we saw how we had fitness classes, yoga on stage, played darts, water polo, twirled bicycles in the water - there was something in general), we saw the children’s several times: with older children they danced in the children's pool, went by train, shouted some chants, moving together along the hotel paths, there was a children's disco, painted T-shirts in the kids club, baked cookies, painted, etc. Ours didn’t try it all because all the animation is aimed at children from 4 years old. For children 1-3 years old, the kids club has only a small playroom and a sleeping room with cribs (I have not seen this yet). Even people like us were not forbidden to go to the children's cinema, to the Lego room (but the Lego is small there - you need to make sure that the child does not shove it in his mouth))), to a room with all sorts of useful things such as coloring books, books, pencils / felt-tip pens, board games etc. There is also a room with a Sony Play Station: if we had time and opportunity, we would go to play with my husband, by God))))
Our alcohol was not particularly important, since we are "not a lot of drinkers", but in the first days before the illness we managed to drink a few cocktails (I personally didn’t like it at all), dry red wine at dinner (usual normal dry wine), and indulged a little with Baileys with ice (that is, they also have elite alcohol for free).
From what I categorically did not like - this is the distance from the hotel to the nearest crowded place with shopping: 6-6.5 kilometers to the center of Kadriye, 7-8 kilometers to the center of Belek. That is, either go by bus to Kadriye, or with a transfer on 2 buses to Belek, or by taxi (10 € one way). By bus, you can also go to the Legend for a walk, we also went shopping in Belek 2 times, and found that the town is very pretty! So I advise you to go yourself, because for some reason the hotel guides advise you to go to Kadriye and strongly avoid Belek. Although there is a large Migros in Belek, there are much more shops and Waikiki, and so there is where to take a walk!
Even compared to Kemer, I didn’t like the sea itself: it is almost always a little muddy, there is no that crystal clear water, like on beaches with a stone bottom. Usually the sand settles quickly, but here on the beach it seems like there is always dust in the water. I think that this is a stone crumb in the sand, something like crushed pumice, which is lighter than sand, because of which there is always turbidity in the water. Far from what we expected from the Mediterranean.
Based on the results of the holiday, my husband and I came to the same conclusion that in the future we will always choose hotels and places to stay exclusively for ourselves: that is, 1. it will definitely be a stone beach and a stone bottom (or large pebbles, what is it right to call it! ? ). 2) the hotel will be located in a tourist place and not fenced off from civilization by golf courses, like Papillon. 3. We will choose a hotel where there are not many children, since there is always a high risk of catching some kind of infection, because children spread the whole thing much more actively. We realized that a child under 4-5 years old is deeply purple for a children's hotel, it is more important for him that mom and dad are cheerful and nearby)
Have a good and comfortable rest without negative switching!
We arrived from the airport at 10 a. m. in the morning. It's really close to the airport, which is what I wanted. The room wasn't ready yet. We were offered a brunch to eat while waiting for our room. We returned at 10:50 at the reception, we were asked to wait 10 minutes and at 11:00 we were already settled in the room.
The room was on the 1st floor of the main building overlooking the sea, at the end of the corridor (#4034) . Despite the presence of an amphitheater near the windows, it was really quiet. Noise isolation in the room is good, but you can hear the crying of children in neighboring rooms. But we ourselves were with the baby - it did not annoy us. Recently refurbished hotel, spacious, modern design, fluffy light gray carpet on the floor, large bathroom, a lot of shower cosmetics (renewed daily), white bed linen and towels, everything is changed regularly, plenty of storage space, free mini- bar, which is updated daily, TV. Once they even asked for a second time to replace all the towels because it was raining and after using the towels they did not dry at all. And twice there was embarrassment - the child wet the bed in a dream. They asked for a replacement and they did it without any problems.
Nutrition was fully assessed only in the first 2 days, since by the end of the third day we all fell ill with rotavirus infection in turn: first the husband, then me, and at the end the child. This ended our complete vacation.
Outside the hotel, we didn’t eat or drink anything, the hotel itself is really clean, everywhere in the common areas there are hand sanitizers that we always used. We assume that the husband accidentally took a sip of water in the pool with children's slides (lay down on his back, wanted to wet his head and accidentally plunged into the water completely), but we, in turn, with the child already picked up from him, when he still had no obvious symptoms of the disease . He was stormy specifically: the temperature was above 39, nausea, lack of appetite and diarrhea (without vomiting), everything is the same with the child, only the temperature is up to 38.
We went to the doctor for insurance, prescribed treatment. The illness cost us 100€ with all expenses, taking into account the fact that we paid the insurance deductible only for the child. That is, if you are traveling with a child to a hotel where there are usually a lot of children, I strongly advise you to take money with a margin for such cases. And this despite the fact that we had a large first aid kit with 3 types of antibiotics, antipyretics, all kinds of sorbents, painkillers, etc.
As for food (it was very important for us): the menu is sooooo diverse, many desserts, there is a whole children's restaurant, many locations with snacks: gozleme, pizza, ice cream, a pastry shop with coffee brewed in a professional coffee machine by a pleasant barista girl. In general, you definitely won’t stay hungry, the main thing is not to get sick like we do and then not eat only rice and then walk with hellish stomach pains from one dessert eaten!
The animation was not particularly appreciated: we didn’t have time for an adult (we saw how we had fitness classes, yoga on stage, played darts, water polo, twirled bicycles in the water - there was something in general), we saw the children’s several times: with older children they danced in the children's pool, went by train, shouted some chants, moving together along the hotel paths, there was a children's disco, painted T-shirts in the kids club, baked cookies, painted, etc. Ours didn’t try it all because all the animation is aimed at children from 4 years old. For children 1-3 years old, the kids club has only a small playroom and a sleeping room with cribs (I have not seen this yet). Even people like us were not forbidden to go to the children's cinema, to the Lego room (but the Lego is small there - you need to make sure that the child does not shove it in his mouth))), to a room with all sorts of useful things such as coloring books, books, pencils / felt-tip pens, board games etc. There is also a room with a Sony Play Station: if we had time and opportunity, we would go to play with my husband, by God))))
Our alcohol was not particularly important, since we are "not a lot of drinkers", but in the first days before the illness we managed to drink a few cocktails (I personally didn’t like it at all), dry red wine at dinner (usual normal dry wine), and indulged a little with Baileys with ice (that is, they also have elite alcohol for free).
From what I categorically did not like - this is the distance from the hotel to the nearest crowded place with shopping: 6-6.5 kilometers to the center of Kadriye, 7-8 kilometers to the center of Belek. That is, either go by bus to Kadriye, or with a transfer on 2 buses to Belek, or by taxi (10 € one way). By bus, you can also go to the Legend for a walk, we also went shopping in Belek 2 times, and found that the town is very pretty! So I advise you to go yourself, because for some reason the hotel guides advise you to go to Kadriye and strongly avoid Belek. Although there is a large Migros in Belek, there are much more shops and Waikiki, and so there is where to take a walk!
Even compared to Kemer, I didn’t like the sea itself: it is almost always a little muddy, there is no that crystal clear water, like on beaches with a stone bottom. Usually the sand settles quickly, but here on the beach it seems like there is always dust in the water. I think that this is a stone crumb in the sand, something like crushed pumice, which is lighter than sand, because of which there is always turbidity in the water. Far from what we expected from the Mediterranean.
Based on the results of the holiday, my husband and I came to the same conclusion that in the future we will always choose hotels and places to stay exclusively for ourselves: that is, 1. it will definitely be a stone beach and a stone bottom (or large pebbles, what is it right to call it! ? ). 2) the hotel will be located in a tourist place and not fenced off from civilization by golf courses, like Papillon. 3. We will choose a hotel where there are not many children, since there is always a high risk of catching some kind of infection, because children spread the whole thing much more actively. We realized that a child under 4-5 years old is deeply purple for a children's hotel, it is more important for him that mom and dad are cheerful and nearby)
Have a good and comfortable rest without negative switching!
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OTHER REVIEWS ABOUT THE HOTEL
- the hotel was a pleasant surprise
- Great hotel for families with children
- Everything is very green and beautiful.
- Excellent combination of price and quality
- Good hotel for families with children 4-5 years old
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